MyAppleMenu: About Me

Welcome

Hello, and welcome to MyAppleMenu. This website - or blogs, or headlines lists, or link blog, or home page (feel free to call it whatever you want to call it), is bascially a list of articles or articles that I've read daily, and I simply share this list to you. If you, my dear reader, share the same interest with me, well, enjoy this little website of mine.

Just a Little History

My first web site was An Apple A Day, hosted by Ambrosia Software, as part of their Ambrosia Cafe collection. An Apple A Day linked to an Apple or Mac-related site daily, and was inspired by cool-site-of-the-day kind of web sites, so popular then. An Apple A Day went live on 1st Jan 1996, and the first featured site was the BMW QuickTime site.

Somewhere in the middle of 1996, I started a companion section that linked to major news stories about Apple and Macinotsh. This section slowly evolved into its own web site called AppleSurf.

In November 1998, AppleSurf moved on to become part of MacOPINION. I've also added new pages, The AppleSurf Reader and SingaporeSurf.

An Apple A Day was terminated in 1999. Partly, it coincided with the decision by Ambrosia Software to stop hosting third-party web sites. Apple was also "back in business," and it was no longer "necessary" or "fashionable" to lable one's site as "Made with Macintosh," meaning that I couldn't really easily identify sites that were made with Apple technologies.

On March 23, 2000, AppleSurf, The AppleSurf Reader, and SingaporeSurf were moved to a new home — under the MyAppleMenu name. (A cybersquatter was sitting on Applesurf.com then, hence the change of name.)

And that's about the history of this web site. Which means I've been publishing daily content since 1996. Wow — more than 10 years of fun.

Tehnical Stuff

This web site is currently hosted by Pair. The home-grown content management system behind the scene is clobbered together by me using a variety of languages and platforms over time. Currently, the system is developed on Frontier, with some Perl codes thrown in on the side.

The machine I'm using to develop and test the codes is my trusty MacBook running Mac OS X.

Finally, the Personal Stuff

I'm Heng-Cheong Leong, and I'm currently living in Singapore. Except for a short stint in Maryland, U.S., in the late 80's/early 90's, I've lived here all my life. This web site is really just a hobby, and is not my day job.

Thanks for listening.

Heng-Cheong Leong, webmaster@myapplemenu.com